Between climate change and the effects of humanity on the environment, many species have been harmed. Here are a few of them ...

In the case of extinct species, however, researchers rely on ... the marine iguana of the Galapagos lives on algae, for examples, chameleons eat only insects, Gila monsters are fond of eggs ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

Rajeev Raghavan, an ichthyologist at the IUCN and a co-author of the paper, offers the example of the Western ... 89 freshwater species have gone extinct—and an additional 178 are suspected ...